Snapchat has partnered with mobile payments company, Square, to bring peer-to-peer payments to the social network. Snapchat is not the first social network to experiment with peer-to-peer payments. New research from Swirl Networks suggests that shoppers are embracing beacon technology. billion , a 4% rise on last year.

Social networking's salad days are ending, Forrester says [link]. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information. Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want to save for the same reason. sJMqBs via @euan. vPsc3L.

Below are the ones for December. Acquia Ads New Components to the Acquia Network for Drupal Users. The AppGap posts began toward the end of January 2008. Here, I am primarily doing product commentaries with a few other things thrown in. There will be more in January. Wrike Brings Collaboration to Project Management.

social network predictions for 2012 [link]. RT @GeorgeDearing: Good explanation of how social networks trump email -- [link]. Social Networks Account for 20% of Time Spent Online [link] RT @darwineco: RT @SmartDataCo: Why Businesses Can No Longer Ignore Social Media Listening [link]. hope this is also useful for you. link].

Coveo is hosting a Webinar on December 16, focused on quantifying the value of enterprise search. Blackberry owners can access App World via wi-fi or mobile networks to access a range of applications across categories such as entertainment, IM and social networking, news, weather, and productivity. Coveo on Value of Search.

Thanks to a freedom of information investigation by the Climate Change Network, it has been revealed that Environment Canada warned the Canadian government about the ecological atrocity of the Alberta Tar Sands, and the government chose to label the report ‘secret’ and bury it. PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S COLLAPSE.
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How network governance adds value, by Shann Turnbull (excerpt). Our brains possess a rich network of control centres without a central controlling chief executive neuron. Social organisations could likewise sustain and improve their operations by adopting a rich form of network governance. Network governance reduces corruption.
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In December 2008, global consumers spent an average of just over three hours on social networks. In December 2009, they were spending over five and a half hours on average. According to The Nielsen Company , social network sites have grown in importance globally in 2009. Image by Balakov via Flickr. An increase of 82%.
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However, as you’ll see from the slides, I was also emphasising that sharing is about networks, not one-stop-information-shops, and it is people who make that work. There is currently no networking, but that may be a feature of next stage development. Could BIG apply that philosophy to networking for civil society?
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It is like knowing who is the best person to meet on your social network. Social Networks are Mobile. This is a pretty new app, only launched in December of last year. No one wants to build a network that they can't take with them. Enterprise Social Networks. There are several trends driving this: one is BYOD.
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